Paulo Solano combined three different exposures using HDR photography to create this beautiful image from Van Nuys, California, of the October 8 lunar eclipse. The second "blood moon" of the year could be witnessed throughout North America, as well as over most of the Pacific and much of East Asia. If you missed your chance to see it, don't despair. Two more eclipses are coming in 2015, on April 4 and September 28. 
From her yard in Augusta, Ohio, Jennifer Kiko shot this amber moon with some trees in the foreground early Wednesday. 
It was the first time Nicholas Scott Page from Dayton, Washington, saw the blood moon."I stayed up in April to try and catch the last eclipse but cloud cover spoiled my plans to photograph it," he said. 
On the other side of the world, the blood moon appeared at night. Hayden Himburg saw the eclipse from Dunedin, New Zealand, Wednesday just before midnight. "I have seen previous blood moons, and they are always impressive," he said. 
The lunar eclipse hovers over Marie Diaz's home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, early Wednesday morning. 
Mike Escott was up at 3 a.m. to photograph the blood moon from his home in San Francisco. He was inspired to set his alarm clock early and head up to his roof to document the lunar event. 
Brian Greenberg enjoys doing astrophotography and captured the blood moon in Victor, New York. 
Nate Paradiso created this composite image of the April 15 lunar eclipes, as seen from the foothills of Boulder, Colorado. 
CNN iReporter Dan Huntley mostly does landscape and travel photography, but he turned his camera to the sky for this shot of the "blood moon" over Dallas in April. Huntley has seen eclipses before but not a blood moon. He described it as being "quite amazing." Photographer José Dominguez Barrera caught one couple's romantic moment in Chetumal, Mexico, under April's blood moon. The man got down on one knee and proposing to his girlfriend. The photographer didn't know the couple, but he found the moment an emotional one. 
iReporter Heith Pino of St. Helena, California, used an intervalometer and a shutter release to capture a photo of the April blood moon every four minutes. He stitched together six shots to create this time-lapse photo series. "I was blown away by the colors it reflected and knew I had to brave the cold, chilly evening to capture it," Pino said. 
Jeffrey Root shot this photo of the April 15 blood moon through a telescope in Salt Lake City. 
High school sophomore Ahan Malhotra and his dad captured this composite image of the blood moon over Miami early April 15. "My dad and I have been planning to view this for many months, and it was truly a breathtaking experience," said Malhotra, an astronomy enthusiast who likes to photograph "mostly galaxies and nebulae." 
The April 15 blood moon passes over Port Orange, Florida, in this time-lapse image from Kenneth Ngyuwai. 
Photographer Tiffany Chee-Stalnaker captured this radiant shot in Plano, Texas, early on April 15. She says she's always up at night and this time, the sight was "beautiful." 
Robert Ondrovic drove around for 90 minutes -- and 70 miles across the New York City suburbs -- before he found a clear patch of sky in April. Ondrovic used his mobile Wi-Fi to live stream Doppler radar images to his laptop, where he created this composite image. "One of my tougher moon shots to say the least," he said. 
No stranger to astronomical photography, J. David Osorio photographed the different phases of the lunar eclipse. He started photographing at 10:45 p.m. April 14 and stopped at 3 a.m. April 15. See more of his photos of the moon's progression. 
Osorio was part of a small group of past and present physics students from California State University Northridge that got together to view the lunar eclipse and blood moon. "The meeting was spontaneous," said Osorio, an alumnus. 
Osorio joined students and alumni for the photography session on top of a parking structure at the school. Using telescopes, they were able to capture some clean images before the sky clouded over. 
Joseph Poirier shot this photo of the blood moon in Austin, Texas, with his telescope. He says he woke up his 10-year-old son, who had never seen a lunar eclipse before. Click the double arrow to see more photos. 
Norm Keally stood outside in 28-degree weather to capture the start of the lunar eclipse in Fort Collins, Colorado, early on April 15. "I felt fortunate to be able to witness this eclipse," he said. 
Dan Hiris said that getting this photo "required a few hit or miss shots," but luckily he had a few hours to get it right. "It felt like the entire solar system turned red," he said. 
Kyle Hansen stood outside for an hour in 25-degree weather on April 15 to get this shot of the blood moon over Burnsville, Minnesota. He said it was "very cool to see the shadow of the earth on the moon." 
Joel Morales says he superimposed 100 separate images to create this progression photo of the blood moon over Dundedin, Florida, in April. 
"It was about an eighth lit up, then about 15 minutes later it started to turn this beautiful red, almost as if Mars or Mercury were very close, close enough for the naked eye" to see, said Robert Aycock of the April eclipse over Temecula, California. 
René Dietrich says he was up until 3 a.m. on April 15 to capture this photo from his back yard in San Juna, Puerto Rico, and had to be back up at 7 a.m. to get to work at his dental practice. He says it was worth losing sleep to "see this spectacular show nature offers to us, completely free!" 
Abe Blair says it was cloudy when he got up to take pictures of the blood moon, but he decided to try anyway. "I am glad I trusted my gut feeling," he said. Blair had picked this tree out earlier in the day, but he had to hike for about 15 minutes in the dark to get there. He shot a two-second exposure for the moon and a 20-second exposure of the tree, and then combined the images in Photoshop. 
Jamal Green used Photoshop to create this composite of shots of the moon over Los Angeles at different phases of the April eclipse. At the height of the eclipse, "the moon looked like a muted sunset in the night sky," he said. 
Christopher Decker put his cell phone camera up to a 10-inch telescope to capture these images of the April blood moon over Sargent, Nebraska. He says the final product, a composite of 10 images, was "absolutely worth every minute." 
Ian Tailyour took this photo of the blood moon from the 22nd floor of his apartment in Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam, in April.
- NEW: The full eclipse has ended
- This blood moon is the size of a super moon, more than 5% larger than the last blood moon
- It is the second in a series of four -- called a tetrad
- Tetrads can be rare; for a 300-year stretch, there were none
We want to see your shots of the blood moon! Share your best photos with iReport, and you could be featured on CNN.
(CNN) -- Sequels are usually a disappointment. But not this time, not with this heavenly body.
People throughout the United States had a front-row seat for the show: a lunar eclipse that made the moon look a burnt reddish-orange.
The"blood moon," as it's called, was the second of the year.
The full eclipse started at about 6:25 a.m. ET and lasted until about 7:24 a.m. ET.
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Lunar eclipse in a minute Because it happened right after the perigee -- when the moon is closest in its orbit to Earth -- this blood moon was nearly the size of a super moon, appearing more than 5% larger than the previous blood moon in April.
While we're talking sequels, this series is only halfway through. Two more blood moons are coming. Hollywood might dub it a quadrilogy, but scientists call it a tetrad.
The series is occurring in roughly six-month intervals. April 4, 2015, is the next one, and last will appear on September 28, 2015.
NASA will guide the curious through the eclipse in a live chat on its website.
A rare treat
With that frequency, you could be misled into thinking blood moons are fairly common.
In the 21st century, there will be many tetrads, but look back a few centuries, and you'll find the opposite phenomenon, NASA says.
Before the dawn of the 20th century, there was a 300-year period when there were none, says NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak.
That would mean that Sir Isaac Newton, Mozart, Queen Anne, George Washington, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln and their contemporaries never had a chance to see such a sequence.
A "blood moon" rises over the El Salvador del Mundo monument in San Salvador early Tuesday, April 15, as a total lunar eclipse attracts sky gazers across the Americas. In a total lunar eclipse, the full moon turns a coppery red as it passes into Earth's shadow. "It's like seeing all the sunsets on Earth projected on the moon at once," says Indra Petersons of CNN's "New Day." 
The moon is seen from Miami before the beginning of the total lunar eclipse. The blood moon was most prominent in North and South America. 
Another shot from Miami. Showers and clouds rendered viewing the blood moon a bust in some U.S. cities. 
Dust and sulfur dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere can affect the size of the shadow spreading across the moon's surface. 
The moon has to be full for the total lunar eclipse to occur. 
The Earth's shadow crosses over the last bit of reflected light on the moon's surface. 
The moon begins to take on a reddish hue early Tuesday from Miami. The moon did so as it appeared in different phases between 2 and 4:30 a.m. ET. 
The red hue is caused by refracted sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere, which bounces off the moon while in shadow. The entire reddening process takes about an hour. 
The total lunar eclipse is seen in this image taken from Miami. Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view with the naked eye and don't require special filters. 
A lunar eclipse takes place over Southern California early Tuesday as seen from the San Gabriel Valley. North America will see a blood moon four times -- known as a tetrad -- between now and September 2015. 'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
'Blood moon' sweeps night sky
Photos: 'Blood moon' sweeps night sky There are about two lunar eclipses per year, NASA says.
Some are so subtle they're barely visible and pretty much go unnoticed.
Other eclipses cast a partial shadow on the moon but don't give it that blood moon color that only total eclipses do. They come around, on average, less than once a year.
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A global sunset shining on the moon
The brilliant hues of a blood moon come from the edges of the sun peeking around the periphery of the Earth, catching the atmosphere. It's essentially a global sunset shining on the moon, which has to be in just the right position to catch those rays.
Lunar eclipses -- whatever the variety -- occur in random order, NASA says. Getting four total eclipses in a row, especially blood moons, is like drawing a rare lunar poker hand of four of a kind.
"The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the U.S.A.," said Espenak.
The people of Europe, Africa and the Middle East were not be able to see this blood moon.
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